Hayne v. Assessor
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Eleventh Judicial District Court, Parish of Red River; W. T. Cunningham, Judge. Suits by W. P. Hayne and others and by the Natalie Oil Company against the Police Jury of Red River Parish as a board of review, and against the Assessor and Tax Collector, to have the assessments of plaintiffs’ Iiroperty canceled, or, in the alternative, reduced.
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Appeal from Eleventh Judicial District Court, Parish of Red River; W. T. Cunningham, Judge. Suits by W. P. Hayne and others and by the Natalie Oil Company against the Police Jury of Red River Parish as a board of review, and against the Assessor and Tax Collector, to have the assessments of plaintiffs’ Iiroperty canceled, or, in the alternative, reduced. Cases consolidated before trial, and judgment rejecting the demands of plaintiffs W. P. Haynes and others in respect to a land tax, and decreeing the nullity of a road tax, and plaintiffs W. P. 'Haynes and others and the defendants appeal;…
1Opinion of the Court
On Motion to Dismiss Appeal.
O’NIELL, J.
Two suits were brought against the police jury, as a board of reviewers, and against the assessor and the tax collector, to have the assessments of the plaintiffs’ property declared illegal and ordered canceled, or, in the alternative, to have the assessments reduced. The cases, being identical as to the issues involved, were consolidated before the trial. The judgment, in each case, decreed the assessment valid, and condemned the plaintiff or plaintiffs to pay 10 per cent, thereof, as attorneys’ fees, except as to a certain road tax, which was decreed…
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